WE ARE RAISING THE MEN THE WORLD HAS BEEN WAITING FOR
Four sacred rites of passage. Boys 9 to 25.
Boys Are Born The Most Expressive Human Beings On Earth
They feel everything fully and show it completely — the joy, the love, the hurt, the wonder. They arrive tender, open, and completely unafraid of their own feeling.
That tenderness is not something he needs to outgrow. It is his greatest strength.
Four Sacred Rites Of Passage
Each rite is a year. Three letters arrive every week.
- YoursWritten for you as his parent, with its own sections for his mum and his dad.
- HisWritten to him, and his alone.
- The Check-InThe campfire at the end of the week, where the real questions get asked.
Fifty-two weeks of being met.
素直SUNAO
soo-NAH-oh · Boys 9–11
Open-hearted, and entirely without pretending.
He learns the words for what moves through him, and he learns that somebody sees him.
大器TAIKI
TAH-ee-kee · Boys 12–15
A great vessel. A person of extraordinary capacity whose greatness is still emerging.
The greatest vessels take the longest to complete. That is not waiting. That is becoming.
真人SHINJIN
shin-JEEN · Boys 16–18
The true person. The one underneath everything he has learned to show.
The year you come to understand what is actually moving in him underneath his ordinary days.
道明りMICHIAKARI
MEE-chee-ah-KAH-ree · Young men 18–25
The light on the path. Enough to see the next step by.
The only rite he walks alone.
The Boy Who Knows Himself Becomes The Man Who Changes Everything He Touches.
The same world that was afraid of a woman’s power
was also afraid of a man’s tenderness.
So it took both.